Texas rolled out the red carpet to corporate interests --- and then discovered that their electrical grid operation is totally inadequate to deal with the impact.

This is just one isolated example of a much larger issue related to the "AI race".

AI is power intensive and the "winner" of the "AI race" is likely be whoever can produce lower cost power and lots of it.

Well we will know for sure on Nov 4 :) But I expect 99.999% of the reason is Midterms, that way politicians can say "We are stopping Data Centers". I expect that will change once they have to account for their bribes, known as political contributions in the US.

This is not just a wild-eyed thing invented by HN's favorite bad guy.

https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalabl...

And they want to mostly power it with on site GAS?!

What is even happening.

If the new capacity uses gas to deliver the power it will consume more gas than the USA exported last year.

So basically it will drive up costs _globally_ to a comic scale, for limited return (its already expensive to train new models, this will make it ruinously expensive to both train _and_ run)